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Designing Your Space: Living Room Edition
Designing Your Space: Living Room Edition
The living room is where stories are told. One of our favorite spots to express ourselves through classic wall decor is right here. We want guests in our homes to know... Read more...
Illustrated Guide to Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Creeks and Geeks (Part 2)
Illustrated Guide to Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Creeks and Geeks (Part 2)
"Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you." -- John... Read more...
Designing Your Space: Bedroom Edition
Designing Your Space: Bedroom Edition
The place where you rest your sleepy head and dream sweet dreams. Your sanctuary and safe haven to release the stresses of the day and to start anew with the... Read more...
Illustrated Guide to Great Smoky Mountains National Park: You Call this Research? (Part 1)
Illustrated Guide to Great Smoky Mountains National Park: You Call this Research? (Part 1)
After the success of our 59 Illustrated National Parks book in 2015-16, we started thinking: what next? Sure, the book was a fun overview of America's greatest nature hubs but we... Read more...
Designing Your Space: Outdoor Edition
Designing Your Space: Outdoor Edition
Warm weather is finally here and we've got two words for you: metal signs. While the increase in temperature has us spending more time outside, our metal signs will look great in... Read more...
Social Media
Social Media
The coolest part about displaying our art on social media is the responses we receive. While it is fun to showcase our new artwork and offer free giveaways, connecting with people... Read more...
Designing Your Space: Kitchen Edition
Designing Your Space: Kitchen Edition
Community is the word that comes to mind when we think of kitchen. The room where sweet & spicy aromas are devised, wine is poured, coffee is brewed, and family thrives.... Read more...
Designing Your Space: Bathroom Edition
Designing Your Space: Bathroom Edition
We love that our art can be used subtly and still captivate at the same time. And with 19 collections & over 1,000 designs, we have an image for just about any room, style, or taste.... Read more...
When Nature, Art and Beer Come Together...
When Nature, Art and Beer Come Together...
Some of our friends think we don't work for a living. After all, we just sit around and draw pictures all day, right? Oh yeah, and we travel to National Parks... Read more...
The Long Lost Art of Letter Writing
The Long Lost Art of Letter Writing
In this age of social media, text messages and e-cards, a hand-written note is sure to make an unforgettable statement. Real ink on paper. Beautiful art created by real artists—this is the way to re-connect with an... Read more...
Jackson Hole, Grand Tetons, & Yellowstone
Jackson Hole, Grand Tetons, & Yellowstone
Upon arriving in this small city, an overwhelming peace takes over as the gray clouds hang low and mist fills the air. The snow-capped Grand Tetons command silence and awe... Read more...
Weddings
Weddings
With our art, we strive to create not just cool designs for wall space, but a beautiful way to make memories. We want you to look at our designs and... Read more...
A Week of National Park Hopping
A Week of National Park Hopping
As busy creative professionals, we need to slow down, get out of the studio and immerse ourselves in natural beauty from time to time. Cultivating a few moments of beauty... Read more...
Illustrating for the 2016 Macy's Flower Show
Illustrating for the 2016 Macy's Flower Show
In October of last year we transitioned out of full-service design (doing branding, packaging, book covers, etc.) to focus on our passion—illustration, poster design, and hand-lettering. Since then we have... Read more...
Postcards Anyone?
Postcards Anyone?
We have created hundreds of different designs since we started producing poster art in 2003. All 700+ designs are available on our site as 18" x 24" gallery prints. We... Read more...
After 5 Years, We've Completed our National Park Poster Series!
In 2010, we started a new poster series called the Art & Soul of America Collection. We created these travel posters to celebrate our favorite destinations—places like New York, Chicago and San Francisco. But the series also featured a few National Parks which we considered to be iconic American places that everyone should visit. We soon began to receive requests for more park designs. People were asking for prints of specific parks they had visited—places where they had shared an experience of awesome natural beauty and splendor with someone special. At... Read more...
Limited Edition Hand-Pulled Screen Prints
We’ve created a special series of 20" x 30" silkscreen prints featuring four of our most popular designs.  Each print is signed and numbered by Joel Anderson, creator of the Spirit of Nashville Collection.  Hand-crafted locally by Ryan Pflasterer at Inkwell's Press, each print has unique characteristics from the hand-pulling process, which involves pressing hand-mixed inks through a mesh screen onto meticulously selected paper stocks or fabrics.  And the result is a beautiful display of color that has an authentic feel. This series is very limited, and hence, very desirable... Read more...
Celebrating 10 Years of Keepin' It Local
It all started when we created a promotional calendar that featured 14 illustrated posters of our favorite hometown hot spots. We never dreamed that in 10 years we would have produced a collection of over 150 prints, a full line of gift items, and a coffee table book! Well, here we are a decade later, and it seems like the Spirit of Nashville Collection has plenty of room to keep on growing! Join us in celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Spirit of Nashville Collection! We invite you to drop by... Read more...
Wall Decor for Harley-Davidson
We have relationships with some pretty cool companies. One of them is Meissenburg Designs in Montana. They produce amazing wood and metal signs, often featuring art they license from us. Recently, they became Harley Davidson’s 88th licensee, charged with producing a series of officially-licensed wall art. Last Fall, our pals from Meissenburg gave us a quick assignment—come up with as many Harley-Davidson designs as possible in just a few weeks. The new art would be turned into cool wall decor products at an upcoming Harley dealership show. We revved up our engines... Read more...
Hauntings of Hermitage
It's the time of the year for Halloween themed posters, and this year we were fortunate to have the opportunity to make one. Our project began when The Hermitage asked us to redesign their logo to reflect their new direction. They wanted to rebrand the site as as Andrew Jackson's Hermitage and make our nation's seventh president more prominent in the name and logo. Located in Middle Tennessee, Andrew Jackson's Hermitage gives tours that tell the story of how 1000 acres changed from frontier forest to Andrew Jackson’s prosperous farm,... Read more...
J.M. Thomason Spices
It's been a good season for packaging at ADG, pun intended. This particular project we cooked from the ground up starting with the logo. Designers Ligia Teodosiu and Edward Patton came up will several good options.   Ligia finished out the final logo design. The client ended up using two; one main logo that spelled out the full name, and an abbreviated button for use on the front of the packaging.  The packaging ended up being a team effort. Ligia developed the look of the package and the first three... Read more...
Pressers Playing Cards
Last year we were approached by Ellusionist, a company that makes playing cards and instructional videos for magicians. Wanting to branch out with the look of their cards they looked to us to create a vintage deck of cards based in 60s advertising. They were inspired by the hit TV series Madmen and we wanted to give them something that felt at home in that era of design. Illustrator Aaron Johnson always has an ace up his sleeve. His first set of sketches left the client speechless. The card backs... Read more...
Syracuse University: Orange Central
Syracuse University contacted us earlier this year to see if we would be interested in doing a poster series for their Orange Central Event happening in October. Syracuse is a university with a lot of history, and we all agreed that the vintage travel poster was the right vibe to celebrate their campus at the annual event. The series focused on four aspects of their school that they wanted to play up: the campus buildings, school spirit, making connections on campus, and last but not least–athletics.  Each poster started with a... Read more...
Our Office and Studio Store Renovation
Call us crazy, but back in July, we decided to renovate our entire building—inside and out—while we kept working in the middle of the chaos. The goal was to transform our crusty old 70s-era office building into a hip multi-use hot spot of design and local culture. So we did a total makeover to create a warm and inviting retail space on the ground floor and a stylish design studio space on the 2nd floor.  For the last 10 years, our place looked like an ordinary office building. The structure... Read more...